You can find the complete documentation of the 2008 Win-Timdouine (20km long cave system in Marocco,High Atlas) biospeleological expedition here. Photos, text, and a video.
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CGEB expedition to Hekurave mountains
October 28, 2009 – 8:00 am
September 2009 saw the continuation, after the initial ventures in 1993, 1994, 2006 and 2008, of the exploratory expedition to Albania by the Caving Society, the Commissione Grotte “Eugenio Boegan” CAI Trieste. Its purpose was to survey the enormous karst plateau which acts as a reference to the area of the Hekurave and Boshit mountains, [...]
Results of expedition Arabica 2009
October 26, 2009 – 8:23 am
In the period from 16 August to 12 October the research expedition “Arabica 2009″ in Sarma cave (-1543m) and surrounding areas (Abkhazia ,Western Caucasus, Gagra Range, R-OH triangle) took place. The expedition was organized by Siberian Federal University, and caving clubs from Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. Also, it was attended by cavers from Tomsk, Ufa and [...]
Retro pictures from Sieben-Hengste exploration
October 20, 2009 – 9:49 am
Francis Spinoy, a Belgian caver who was active in the Swiss Sieben-Hengste network since 1970, is currently producing some nice Powerpoint presentations, mostly from its old slides (which were scanned at least). The text is in french… but an image is an image, isn’t it ?
The first one has just been released, and you can [...]
Two new caves in Sierra de Tendeñera
October 15, 2009 – 9:21 am
The two new cave was discovered in Pyrenees, Spain. They are ” Grallera of Batxessanga” -452 m deep and “Fita dels Avenc of lichens”, which is -428m. The entrance of the two caves was known for six years, but the exploration of them happened just this year. The entrances are not far away from Sistema [...]
The fifth time in Arabika
October 12, 2009 – 8:42 am
Polish caving club, Sekcji Grotołazów Wrocław had their fifth consecutive expedition in Arabika massif, Caucasus. In PL-1 cave, they reached -490m depth. The depth was -330m in previvious year in this cave, and they surpassed this limit with a digging, which was conducted from an underground camp. Now the size of the cave started growing, [...]
New survey of Torca del valle Agua VA-1
October 9, 2009 – 8:43 am
Here you can find the updated survey of VA-1, in Picos de Europa, which have been pushed to -923m this summer by the expedition organized by Zapespeleo.
Durmitor explo
October 7, 2009 – 8:39 am
Earlier here we wrote about the belgians discovery in Durmitor mountain, Montenegro. Now we have some more deatiled information, some pictures of the cave here. Between 13.7 – 19.8 2009 there was an exploration camp organized by the Montenegro Speleological society, and the ASAK club from Belgrade. In the period from 13.7. to 1.8. on [...]
Höher Goll 2009
October 6, 2009 – 8:32 am
Between 4 July and August 2, 2009 took place the expedition of polish caving clubs WKTJ and RKG “Nocek”, with a dozen of participants. The main aim of the expedition was exploring undescended shafts & check some other possibilities in Unvollendeterschacht, which is part of Hochschartehöhlensystem, and can be found in Austria, Salzburg Limestone Alps. [...]
Popovo polje
October 5, 2009 – 8:43 am
You can read here about the international expedition organized in period august 15-23 in Popovo Polje. The expedition was attended by 15 cavers from Bosnia,Slovenia, and Croatia. There was a large focus on the biospeleology aspects of this cave. You can see beatufioul pictures, and the survey of the cave Vjetrenice -which was the main [...]